Reluctant Warriors: Republican Popular Army and Nationalist Army Conscripts in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939

by James Matthews

Reluctant Warriors challenges traditional political interpretations of the Spanish Civil War, and sets it in a new and immediately human light. It is a comparative study of Nationalist Army and Republican Popular Army conscripts, and analyses the conflict from the perspective of those who were involved against their will. While militants on both sides joined the conflict voluntarily, millions of Spanish men coped with the military uprising as an unwanted...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019965574X
• ISBN13: 9780199655748
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.5"